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Why Is WalMart Mysteriously Shuttering Stores Nationwide For "Plumbing Issues"?
Earlier this year, WalMart became one of several corporate heavyweights to lift wages for its meagerly compensated workers, around 500,000 of which are now set to receive at least $9/hour and $10/hour by Q1 2016 (that of course assumes they make it on $9 an hour for another 12 months and don’t seek out other employment by sheer necessity).
Meanwhile, as we noted earlier this month, the move by the country’s largest retailer to pay a few extra pennies to its (basically) minimum wage employees comes at a cost to the company’s suppliers because when you operate on the thinnest of margins in order to be the “low price leader,” someone has to pay for those wage hikes and you can’t pass along the costs to customers because many of your low-income patrons are operating from the same tax bracket as your low-paid employees. As such, the poor companies along the supply chain are forced to lower their prices and of course they’re going to comply because well, you’re WalMart meaning you’re your vendors’ biggest account pretty much by default. The outcome is that “while WMT (or MCD or GAP or Target) boosts the living standards of its employees by the smallest of fractions, it cripples the cost and wage structure of the entire ecosystem of vendors that feed into it, and what takes place is a veritable avalanche effect where a few cent increase for the lowest paid megacorp employees results in a tidal wave of layoffs for said megacorp's vendors.”
If that doesn’t turn out to be enough in the face of an economy which isn’t really recovering and in which low-income shoppers are constrained by lackluster (and by that we mean nonexistent) wage growth, some sacrifices may have to be made. The problem is that laying people off and shuttering stores two months after a celebrated wage hike initiative doesn’t inspire much confidence and could turn into a PR issue, but one thing you could do is get creative, and while we’re not plumbers, we do find it curious that five geographically distinct WalMart stores have been closed in the past week for “ongoing plumbing issues that will require extensive repairs.”
Here’s more from a local CBS affiliate:
10 News called the county. Officials say they have no record of any code or permit violation at the Brandon location.
And when 10 News was at the Walmart Tuesday, there were no marked septic trucks or plumbing vehicles in the lot.
"Where is everybody if they're supposed to be working on everything where are all the trucks?" asked shopper Melissa Dupuis.
10 News asked a Walmart spokesperson whether the five stores were built from the same design, whether they had the same contractor, anything to understand why all of them closed on the same day for "plumbing issues."
The only thing they have in common, the spokesperson said are the highest number of plumbing incidents.
Leaving some customers to wonder "how many things have they not said. That's scary," said shopper Norma Espinosa.
And here’s more from a local ABC report in Florida:
BRANDON, Fla. - Employees of a Walmart in Brandon that abruptly closed Monday were among more than 2,000 employees nationwide who learned almost simultaneously they were being laid off.
In a nearly identical manner at every store, Walmart corporate officials visited the five locations, called an impromptu meeting in the back of the store and told employees that the stores would be closing that evening.
Besides Brandon, the affected locations were in Pico Rivera, Calif., Livingston, Texas, Midland, Texas, Tulsa, Okla.
“The issues mostly relate to clogs and water leaks in the plumbing - we’ve had persistent issues over the last several years,“ said a Walmart spokesperson said.
“These incidents impact the availability of water and create drainage issues for critical areas of the store which impacts our ability to serve customers,” she said.
“Normally, we do our best to avoid disrupting a store’s operations. However, given this particular store had one of the highest incidences of plumbing issues in the entire fleet and in order to reduce the costs associated with these incidents, we felt it was in the store’s best interest to invest in making the necessary improvements to resolve these issues,” the spokesperson said.
The I-Team has learned that none of the five affected stores have sought any plumbing permits for future repairs.
“We’re in a holding pattern. We’re anxious to learn exactly what they’re planning,” said Pico Rivera City Manager James Enriquez, when we contacted him about the store’s closing Tuesday.
Enriquez says when Walmart notified the city Monday that it was closing the store, he offered his full support in trying to get it back open.
“My building official walked out there and didn’t see any work being done,” he said.
So there you have it, “clogs and water leaks” but no plumbing permits and 2,000 affected employees, many of whom were presumably just given the news that they would be getting a raise only to discover that they will get 60 days of pay before they’ll need to find a job at another WalMart location (hopefully one with no plumbing issues) or find other employment. We’ll leave it to readers to discern if these “clogs and leaks” are real or whether the company is just quietly shutting down stores across the country.
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And watch the local governments that depend on the sales tax generated by these big box stores disappear.
Will not be pretty.
You are partly right. The douche CEO has been whining for years that EBT needs a raise, so his customers can shop more.
But the real knife in walmart's gut is online retailers. Most people I know shop online unless they need something like a light bulb. Much better selection, much better pricing, much better experience -- and they deliver right to your door.
Fuck walmart. If they go out of business, small businesses willl have a chance again. I only hope someone hangs the executive ranks right next to the banksters.
Sam Walton subscibed to the philosophy of: "We sell at a loss, but we make up for it in VOLUME!" had to end sometime
It's what happens when your an Obama golf shoe licker.
Clogged shit.......I mean BULL SHIT!
Have you seen the huge (I mean huge!) people frequenting WalMart? So big you cannot see the poor machine their sitting on. Now picture them over one of those puny toilets. They must use some sort of high tech bomb sights just to center their ass, then it's "Bomb's Away"
I have seen those poor toilets completely filled with,,, shall we say,,, crap. Makes for a whole new shopping experience.
Americans ridicule Chinese people for squatting at the side of the road, but a visit to just about any public toilet in America will give lie to any impression of cultural superiority.
Sounds like a fixation. Bet you discuss this at lunch or dinner.
Your tax dollars at work.
They're afraid the Jade Helm dudes will want free shit.
(Their work is done here. They've still got two massive continents yet to wreck.)
Wonder what the economic conditions are in those locations? Probably vampired the area dry, and now looking for a legit way of moving on without drawing attention, or loss of revenue. In fact their plumbing is probably insured somehow, so they do not lose there either.
I went to see the store today the one in Brandon, They had staged like 15 mobile contrainer cargo containers the bifg ones and had plumbing VANs in the parking lot. What is odd is that all of this must have taken some preperation yet they did not inform any of the staff to last minute ...
Hmmm, did you look into these "plumbing vans"?
Maybe the containers are full of RPGs and terrists....
RPGs will solve the thunder bucket problems pretty quickly.
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There are no Plumbing issues... what BS... they repair plumbing issues by masking off parts of the store and working at night... even when new plumbing for the fresh produce were installed in stores they didn't close...
Total BS excuse.
The store in Pico Rivera looked empty without shoppers and employees the last time I was there.
The area was scary at night.
Fucking Waltons are worth billoins ans billions all on the back of their working poor and suppliers. When is enough enough? You can't share a little of that gravy with the folks in the trencghes? Everything has to be on the shoulders of the supplier and the employees? And thats why I dont shop at WalMart.
That's why we have Target and K-Mart. Quit Whining. How much should they share??? All of it. Go live in Europe.
It’s not sharing, it fairly compensating. There is a very distinct difference. It’s not whining, It’s the mark of decency. I run a small engineering firm with 15 employees. I make a good living from my employees. I could make more…by not giving them 4 figure Christmas bonuses…by not providing them with 100% company provided health insurance…by not giving them incentive bonuses. So, I ask you again, YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE, when is enough enough? For you, the answer is it’s never enough. You are what’s wrong with the world. It’s not free shit, and it’s not giving shit away. It’s reasonably compensating the people that support you, because you can.
Stop lying. You provide benefits because you need to retain skilled workers. Don't try to tell us you are some sort of saint, who loves his employees.
Walmart competes with amazon and other online retailers, who have almost no overhead. I hate the place and never shop there. But at least I'm not some douche bag socialist who thinks every company has to be a mother to their workers. Those workers are in dire straits because the don't have skills. If they want a better job, they can work hard and obtain some skills.
Personal responsibility, bitchez.
It's called leadership.
some have it.
sounds like you don't.
Aldi does. Their Aldi and Trader Joes stores pay the employees well. They kicked the shit out of WMT in Germany and WMT left. Aldi is owned by the Albrecht family who are Catholics. I am not pushing religion but it seems like the family walks the walk as Christians with their employees. They work pretty hard but they get paid better than WMT employees.
The Waltons are scum. They push for more EBT and more illegal aliens plus sell endless Chinese shit. F**king corprate welfare queens.
To paraphrase someone much smarter than I, "the best way to get the measure of a man is to give him some power."
Looks like you measure up. Kudos, sir (or ma'am).
Finally realized they would be more beneficial to the community as local dumps.
Trying to flush the cans...
Oh come on all you tin foil hat wearing crazies....this *WalMart* we are talking about, the most respected, socially conscious and moral company on earth. They are probably just waiting for their chinese McPlumber to show up
Union organizers are hard to flush.
Jimmy Hoffa begs to differ....
Don't all these city serve as major hubs for the upcoming Jade Helm (China Control) exercises?
That is the word on the net. But this sounds like a simple stealth closure to me.
You know there are a lot of "folks" known as Bob Jones?
Bullish
FEMA Emergency ... they ran out of space?
Anybody buying that BS cover story has their plumbing backed up.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." B. Mussolini
Yeah, sounds fishy. However, Walmart doesn't necessarily need to pull permits to do plumbing work. Depends on the local codes. "Maintenance" work is often done without a permit as long as the person performing the work has a license and works for the company which owns the plumbing.
I heard rumors that this is actually part of a military exercise.
Football stadiums closing unexpectedly next up.
First off, do these locations have Taco Bells inside?
Cause Larry Silverstien is buying the buildings and he's having them rewired for some Jewish Lighting some time in the future?.
Widdout plumbing access and throughput, the stores can't populate the meat counter with that 'mystery meat' Walmart is famous for....
Probably those low flow toilets...cant handle the big fat WalMart shoppers turds....
I read ZH because I can't handle the truth so...new rumour is that the closed Wal-Marts will be ISIS staging areas. I mean DEA, FBI, CIA, and your friendly local police.
Ok...I don't shop Wal-Mart but is that any reason to close?
An excuse for the Fed to fly in emergency supplies of Wal.
Their store in Massapequa, NY will also be closing. They are a MALL based store. At the time oft he opening it was a concept they wanted to try and were given huge discounts on rent. It was assumed they would drive people to the mall. Well, it kind of back fired as the rest of the stores did not want the Wal-Mart shoppers hitting their stores.
Wal-Mart is no longer getting the break on rent... BINGO - close the store.
The store was a shithole also
'Hitting'=raiding. The apocalypse is been ongoing affair. Devolution.
Either trying to stem loss of profit margins or something nefarious such as staging areas for globalist uses.
FEMA camps - they all probably have McDonald's in them also so the sheep can graze on McGMO's
you know it's bad when walmart is closing down stores.
shits getting closer and closer to hitting the fan...
the fan is made of shit, we've all just gotten used to the smell...
Walmart, the poster child for the boil of globalism on the face of Amerika
McDonalds inside Walmart.
The event horizon of the Idiocracy singularity.
Given the prevailing tendency to surveil everyone, everywhere with advances in electronic security technology and also the lack of plumbers doing any work at these stores, it's entirely possible that a new security/detection system is being installed and tested. For instance, if someone walks into the public or private rest room with a product, an alert could be sent to security and they can follow the video back to see if it was paid for at checkout. If not, grab'm and book'm. The reason for the total shutdown is that the employees are also a source of loss by theft so to be effective they need to be unaware of any new system.
So if a WM building is used for a holding facility how many can it hold? A few thousand if stacked like sardines. How many guards does that take? Of course the parking lots can be fenced but right now prisons have individual toilets, TV and sinks, beds, music??? So 5 stores X 3000 people / by 350,000,000 = .00004% of the total population. Are you bad guys here at ZH really the ones they are after? Some of you seem to think so. In any case because your here you display the ability to read and write and some with a fair amount of comprehension. Asuming you are bad asses then wouldn't you have brains enough to disappear into the night instead of marching to the FEMA-Mart? It may be that there are a whole lot of idiots that actually do belong there and hopefully at least half of the total are them. The other half? Some really good people get in car wrecks or die from cancer every day. Stuff happens. Control what you can.
These sites being converted into FEMA holding pens isn't really that far out of an idea.
since the stores are in jade helm territory, that is a very reasonable assuption....
These must be areas in which the local stores have already conditioned all available shoppers, show them the queen of diamonds and they will vote Hillary early and often.
Walmart is quietly closing stores - period! Walmart does a nice job in a variety of market spaces, but they are no longer a 'leader' in any particular space. In a less competitive market area they try to crush opposition in one space, and raise prices in another space to cover those losses. The problem comes when they are in a competitive market with several stores -- and each of those stores 'out-Walmarts Walmart'. Thus Walmart cannot crush the opposition in one space, because they cannot raise prices in the other spaces to cover it.
Eventually the predatory lion gets old, and becomes the prey.
I vote for Chinese suppliers, via the net, taking down the lion. Cuts out the middle man.
I thought Jade Helm but surely if they need to set up black sites for holding domestic terrorists then surely there is enough empty real estate across US already that doesnt need to be cleared out of its junk..sorry, inventory- surely you dont want insurgents helping themselves to DVD players while they are re-educated.
Or maybe those DVD stolen by the now toenail-less dissidents gets to inflate GDP?
In that case helping yourself to a range of low cost consumer goods is a good trade for having your nuts are attached to the car battery while you swear allegiance to the UN.
"Black Sites" is rayciss.
Besides, they will be full of YTs.
reasonable assumption, in the drought based climate, that somebody at corporate checked the water usage and they decided to shut down the stores which exceeded standard usage, which may mean there are leaks under the foundation. less reasonable assumption, they are going to raise wages so to keep the labor costs side of the balance sheet in line they have to let some people go. a still reasonable assumption is that the port of entry in LA strike has caused a minor supply chain disruption, and they would rather not have the odious problem of empty shelves. a least reasonable assumption is that since all these stores are somewhat equally spaced, geographically, that the usg is anticipating imposing martial law and these walmarts are going to be back up distrubtion centers for emergency aid. and just because the emergency is never implemented that doesnt mean the threat wasnt real.
Radioactive pipes anyone?
All five Walmarts were built at the same time. Which means that all of the pipes and rebar were probably sourced from the same lowest cost supplier. It would also fit with why they are closed immediately and are not allowing anyone inside. Walmart isn't going to leave that much inventory unsold on the floor when they could just as easily box it up and redistribute it to other stores.
Unless of course that it's radioactive.
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/01/science/nuclear-spill-at-juarez-looms-...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
I've long had a suspicion that Wal-mart is having troubles...higher-cost stuff in particular doesn't move and shoppers' baskets are often more-or-less empty. And they cannot compete with warehouse discount supermarkets on grocery prices. People are more and more buying past-expiration-date foods, day-old bread, bulk quantities on sale and little else. Wlmart refuses to have decent sale prices and has a multitude of tricks to make stuff APPEAR to be on sale. This doesn't exactly attract shoppers...
This has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with WMT from a business end.
What Wal-mart is okay for:
name brand packaged foods that are not on sale/promotion at a standard grocery
items not sold at other local grocers
cheap tee shirts...cut is boxy and short,but they aren't see through
That is it. Will not buy meat or produce there.
Generic packaged food and produce are cheaper at Aldi.
Many of the same cheap products are available at Dollar Tree.
Best deals on most other products are to be found online or second hand.
Walmart is about as good as war, and what is war good for? Nothing. And profits. But in the end nothing for us common "folks" these politicians keep talking about. Who are these folks anyway?
The newest WMT that I saw was a hybrid grocery store with some small amount of other products, Like a mini WMT with a bigger grocery store. My guess is because most of their business is groceries paid for with EBT/WIC cards.
As ar as price, Aldi kicks their ass. Aldi kicked their asses out of germany, Costco is probably cheaper than WMT or buying other stuff online,
Kudos ZeroHedge.
InfoWars broke this story early yesterday.
Interesting that MSM and FOX News refuse to cover it, yet.
Over 2300 comments so far on these two stories:
http://www.infowars.com/questions-swirl-over-bizarre-walmart-closures/
http://www.infowars.com/weird-nationwide-walmart-closures-spark-conspiracy-theories/
Jade Helm! We re dead meat! No use paying on the Credit Cards now.
Google JADE HELM and see what you find !! Hint - dentention of dissidents, violation of "Posse Comitatus" to see how the public reacts to a clear violation of the Constitution and US Statute.
Boston and now Red State central.
They'll be kileld on live TV to teach us others a lesson.
Bath house Barry: I am now your Queen! Bow down, serfs! Hahahahaha!!
Haha, barracks for the Blue Helmets coming to take our gunz.
Oh no like 5 stores closed for a little because of plumbing issues! Take the ripple motherfuckers! Time for some wage increases. Those increases will lead to unemployment, which will make some successful and others to perish. How do you think we can get more unskilled employment? If the workers of today were more skilled, we could have plenty of economic development; unfortunately a lot of people have jack and shit to contribute and physical labor ain't what it used to be worth, and shouldn't.
For those not in the know:
FEMA already has CONTRACTS with Wal-Mart.
any links? thanks
I can't wait!!!
can you believe that? Typical ZH horseshit. get fucking down voted for asking a legit question for a link...sweet jesus. I won't hold my breath. The burden of proof is on the claimant. I am not saying I believe it or that I don't, but let’s see a verifiable doc on it. since some of us are "not in the know"... enlighten us for christ sakes. Until then, down vote away.
Yes they need to squeeze their distributors to remain profitable, because they "operate on the thinnest of margins."NOT
Wal-Mart Stores reported fiscal second quarter net income of $4.093 billion, or $1.21 per share. The earnings were deemed respectable by analysts matched the consensus estimate of $1.21 per share. The retailer’s quarterly revenue of $120.125 billion beat the consensus estimate of $119 billion.
The retail giant held on to the top spot on the Fortune 500, edging out Exxon Mobil for the second year in a row. For fiscal year 2014, Wal-Mart’s net sales totaled $473.1 billion, up 1.6% from the year-earlier period.
Three Waltons—Rob, Jim, and Alice (all children of Walmart founder Sam Walton)—own over 50% of outstanding Walmart shares. This fiscal year, Rob, Jim, and Alice (and the various entities that they control) will receive an estimated $3.16 billion in Walmart dividends on those shares.
The shit was for some odd reason being routed to the fan section?
We are accustomed to the Feds doing this sort of thing....daily. How ironic that as soon as a "dirty" public co. does it, they become nefarious capitalists with alterior motives. Not that they dont HAVE alterior motives, but no one EVER comes after the Feds with this sort of skepticism.
Weird...our WalMart (that i rarely shop at ...honestly) had a big sign when you walk in listing all the open positions (quite a few). No one in this area (big college town) likes to work :) or they expect $20/hr to work a cash register.
My guess is they are getting squeezed and these stores aren't profitable..instead of closing them , they are just using a "shitty" excuse to buy some time to figure out what to do...who knows.
I have to admit I had a stereotypical walmart experience that I usually haven't experienced at the ones I went to.
But as the economic fortunes of the area have fallen and being in California, who lets everyone and his uncle from anywhere and everywhere in to get on the dole, the experience was all to real.
They've tried to find places other than china for their stock. Not everything about walmart is bad, but what makes it bad is the corporate model itself that destroys the connection to the people who work for you.
I used to work for a small brewery that refused to sell out to the majors. However the desire to expand to has turned them I to the very thing that they fought against.
Not to mention the people at the top or near the top are all vying for their chance at power. It's in the process makes most peoe that work in that type of structure miserable and unhappy.
But the people who sleep in their parking lots are fucking crazy as we got to see not that long ago.
Still amazed by that video.
Sure they are. If only one had a "Plumbing" issue it would take them a half hour to fix, and they wouldn't close and lose a half hours worth of business. Anyone remember Watergate Plumbers?
Who’s onsite? Are plumbing trucks parked in front of the stores?
First time I heard of Jade Helm.
You Americans, or at least the one's in power, are getting super creepy.
Jade Helm Presentation to Big Springs, TX city council, who by the way are all traitors to the Constitution.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLM4-aImMkY&app=desktop
Goddammit, why couldn't this have been the store in my neighborhood?
Walton family, if you're listening...
Please close the stinking death pit filth of a store Walmart Supercenter located at:
1601 NW Louisiana Ave, Chehalis, WA 98532.. permanently.
I can smell the stink off your clientele from 6 miles away.
Great, thanks!
Chehalis is just a small town in a wealthy state. Who are those maladorous WM clients you refer to? Vibrants from Mexico?
This is great news. Walmart is circling the drain!!
Google JADE HELM and see what you find !! Hint - dentention of dissidents, violation of "Posse Comitatus" to see how the public reacts to a clear violation of the Constitution and US Statute.
Plumbing is PR. Walmarts stay open during construction and repairs. Even restrooms and plumbing. There is no way wealthy Walmart will sacrifice revenue for repair-free shopping - for half a year. The closure were preceded by pro union protests at those locations. This is the reason
Pico Rivera protest last November-
Brandon protest last November/December-
Tulsa protest last December-
Texas protests lastDecember-
There were more protests. I'd look for anther round of retarded "repair closures" in 3-6 months at other locations. Jersey, for example.
@Dignified. The Food and Commercial Workers Union is a joke.
They are more corporate than the corporations.
NO representation, but full dues for even part-time employees.
Hell, the unions would HELP Walmart provide cover for their crap jobs and crap wages.
Meanwhile, the REAL jobs (at Walmart's American suppliers) are being chopped to "pay" for the raises of the unskilled and uneducated and un-educatable.
The REAL American success rolls on. For the 0.1%. Our new normal.
I'm not pro union. I was merely stating that there was pro union protesting at those 5 locations last November and December. I was simply drawing a conclusion that this was their out based on the fact they hate unions, there was pro union activity there recently, and I worked at a Walmart many moons ago that was open during major construction. Nothing more.
WARN act averted.
We aren't CLOSING stores, we are fixing plumbing, so the WARN act doesn't apply.
Which means that when the stores NEVER re-open, Wally will NEVER have to have the press release that says, "Walmart Heirs still worth more than 40% of America, and we axed thousands of people to keep it so."
It's because of the Weather.
They are giving them 60 days severance from what I heard.(Pico) There are rumors swirling around this is payback for the walkout they had not too long ago at this store. I'm right up the road from the store. It was a cess pool anyhow. Worse than the Kmart in east la.
Does Krugman know about this...broken windows and broke plumbing,
Plumbing is the new recovery.
Plunger Protection Team go!
They've gotta start training their women to stop flushing the hygienics.
Or, get a weekly Roto-Rooter contract.
Because the real issues are plumbing.
MONETARY PLUMBING.
https://youtu.be/n-QIMAQL-00
Gonna make a glue run.
"Why Is WalMart Mysteriously Shuttering Stores Nationwide For Plumbing Issues"
Sorry about that, I've been traveling.
The answer is easy. Credit just SHIT THE BED. Game over.
http://hostingd.imagecross.com/image-hosting-07/7759credit.jpg
I think we have a winner ...
Wont claiming an emergency like plumbing as the reason allow WalMart to avoid obligations under the Warn Act?
ISIS camps only a few miles South of the Rio Grande.
Operation Jade Helm "exercise" invading the Southwest on July 15, 2015 (meaning the US Army et al putting assets in place).
Walmart closing 5 stores in the same states as Jade Helm.
You do the math.
Oh and, DHS to purchase 62 million rounds of AR-15 ammo:
http://www.infowars.com/dhs-to-purchase-62-million-rounds-of-ar-15-ammo/
Jade Helm presentation to Big Springs, TX city council:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLM4-aImMkY&app=desktop
Interesting. Your link traced 2 billion rounds purchased they could trace. Simple math shows that is several times the average body weight for all DHS employees. I guestimate .223 nato rounds are about 50 per pound give or take. Maby 40 million pounds plus crating, or rough math gives 20 thousand tons of ammo. For perspective, a midsized aircraft carrier is about 40,000 long tons. It Seems beyond excessive.
Let that be a lesson to any other Union leaning stores.........'If we get a wiff.....you get the Jiff...."
Get a life!
If you don't like Walmart don't fu.king buy anything there!!!
If you don't like how they treat you as an employee, go and get another job.
Fu.king whiners aggravate the sh.t out of me!
I concur.
Ya know, it is ok to say fuck here. Typing out f.ck will still get you sent to hell. God can read between the lines so type fuck already.
fuckin' A
Peak free trade, financed with US tax dollars and US debt.
You can say shit here too.
This is a "free speech" zone
Since when does anyone ever remember walking into any Walmart store that has a bunch of leaky pipes/water all over the place.
Midland TX store is probably closing because the oil fields are shutting down. My boy was driving trucks there and making way too much money at it. All gone. Now he is driving a truck planting telephone poles @ $12/hr. Minus the CDL and certs he would be $8/hr.
Walmart business has been way down over the last two years here in NE Ohio - Cleveland area. Sometimes there would be more employees working then customers. The store shelves would be a disaster, and little to no ammo.
simple, in store crack lab renovations
We fired some people...
"folks"
.."Let me be clear- If you like your Walmarts, you can keep your Walmarts"..
Can we classify this as deflationary?
No, it's inflationary because now there's only 500,000 of them left. LMAO.
Just bullshit to help fudge numbers for wallstreet. You know how they love cutting expenses to keep that fantastic stock price elevated to the moon.
Can we classify this as deflationary?
I'm pretty sure Walmart hired the same PR Team that the US Gov't used for 9-11.
Walmart attracts the low-end of society...End of story.. Welfare and Food Stamps which Walmart relies on brings out the worst of the worst...I know I don't want to be around it and most people don't... I go to Target and Costco...compare the clientele and you tell me...at least in my area this is the case... In-fact I made the mistake a few years ago going into a Walmart on a Friday afternoon and saw literally a hundred plus people in line to cash their check at a check cashing telle and thought to myself "Holy Shit" I'm outta here and have never set foot in Walmart again....Walmart has decided to cater to the no checking account, welfare, ebt and uneducated part of Society and now you see the result...
THose denizens in fact control your life, and their power grows everyday. The Amerikan Proletariat.
Uhm, no, no they don't!
Why not just come out and say they are shutting down unprofitable stores like other retailers...??
Definitely fucking weird.
Traditionaly wallworld would run the store with shit running down the aisles. They're much more likely to shut one down in a heartbeat if they suspect unionization activities, and believe me they are required to report the workd "union" being used by employees i bet. Basically it's retaliation against the community for even talking about unionization. Bwwwaaaaaaa pumbin problems yeah right.
Interesting, the very even geographic dispersion of these plumbing fiascos.
"ecosystem of vendors"
funny coincidence. it was abt the same time i started reading ZH that I realized that the whole of humanity is run as a set of small heirarchical financial ecosystems whose sustenance depends on the relative importance of the 'products' they generate for global/local markets. it has made looking at the world so much easier.
The .001 %ers want a slice from every single transaction involving money.
It would require only electronic transactions. Hence the push to eliminate cash.
ANYONE buying or selling ANYTHING. That is the ideal they are reaching for. Notice that attachment on phones to process a credit card? Watch, flea markets, Farmer markets, Lemonade stands, will need an account to log the transactions
Hmm plumbing issues. . . well I don't know about that.
but I forsee a lot more of them closing due to office fires in the near future.
^^
Plumbing problems no. Jade Helm drill, yes.
http://allnewspipeline.com/What_Martial_Law_Will_Look_Like.php
"Allnewspipeline" - a paragon of the truth . . . . almost as much BS there as "Before it's News".
Kool. Maybe the local Wally will pick up some of the 22-LR that those stores had on order. /snark
Walmart: "No no, you're right, we should pay our workers more, because, gosh, we feel bad. Oh shit, plumbing issues you say? Damn, we'll have to close some stores down 'temporarily' until a time at which we decide we want to fix those plumbing issues"
bwahahahahahahahahahaha
Who's the slave now bitchez!
Last Friday, the Walmart family announced it would be gradually selling 6% of its holdings. The stock had climbed to $80 due to a previous buy back campaign. The 6% has a value of $15.6 billion at Friday's price.
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-wal-mart-says-walton-family-to-sell-sha...
We don't need no steenkin' plumbing permits when we be unloading our shares.
Each of those walmarts is in a shit part of town, it is probably more likely they are just skirting the layoff and closed location issues.
Sometimes when I don't shake the large hose appendage, I will often feel a trickle down my leg after exiting the Potty Room; must be like that profit lost at a trickle.
SH
I know I always get feverishly suspicious whenever something happens effecting .001 of anything. 4500 Stores in the US; 5 stores are the subject of ZH 'chemtrails' attention.
Oh, man...but don't you know? The folks from Infowars.com who are now infesting this ZH blog are saying the government's henchmen, our American soldiers, are spending nights and weekends drilling in the woods, in anticipation of the day ZOG — the Zionist Occupied Government — will cede the country to the United Nations and these soldiers of the New World Order will come rappelling down from black helicopters to seize everybody’s guns, and force you in these Walmarts to then be transferred to the FEMA camps to be gassed with Zyclon B cyanide.
Hey Man, that was last weeks ZOG cover story, who's your Mossad supervisor? ;)
My Mossad supervisor(s) are the honchos with the U.S. Census Bureau. Shhhhh. Don't tell anybody... they head this evil conspiracy.
Are you trying to throw a curve of epic proportions? Did you forget the Rothchilds sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom?
Since you gave away the BIG PLAN we now must kill you!
But, it's always a feint, within a feint, within a feint. That's the beauty of chemtrail ideology.